Cleary Cougar team members stretch as they warm up for their season opening game Monday against the Concordia Cardinals. The inaugural game was played at Howell's Parker Middle School. ALAN WARD/LIVINGSTON DAILY

Cleary University President Tom Sullivan and Cleary head Baseball Coach Karl Kling confer prior to the beginning of the Monday afternoon season opener at Parker MIddle School. ALAN WARD/LIVINGSTON DAILY

Cleary University President Tom Sullivan throws the ceremonial first pitch prior to the opening of the University's inaugural baseball season. Minutes later, the Cleary Cougars began to maul the Concordia Cardinals. The game was played at Howell's Parker Middle School. ALAN WARD/LIVINGSTON DAILY

Cleary University stepped to the plate Monday for its first-ever home baseball game.

The Cougars took to the field at Parker Middle School in Marion Township for a doubleheader against Concordia University.

"We've never played on that field," Cleary Cougars coach Karl Kling told the Livingston Daily last week. "We practiced at (Howell High School) in the fall. We've had a couple of practices there, but never played a game. We're as foreign to the field as our opponent."

For all intents and purposes, the baseball squad at Cleary University is a first-year team. The school had a baseball team in the 1930s, but little is known about it.

Award-winning Livingston Daily sports reporter Tim Robinson brought all the action from the Cleary University home baseball opener to your living room and workplace Monday afternoon with his live broadcast of the game.

Don't miss out on Robinson's future broadcasts of local sports across Livingston County. Keep tuned to www.livingstondaily.com for upcoming broadcasts and click on the link to the game from the website.

Check out Robinson's game coverage of the Cougars opener Monday in Sports, 1B.